KARACHI – Emergency centres will be set up beneath 14 flyovers of the city, the City District Government (CDGK) decided in a meeting held at the Civic Centre on Tuesday.
The meeting was presided over by Karachi DCO Muhammad Hussain Syed. EDO Works and Services Rasheed Mughal, EDO Municipal Services Masood Alam, EDO Transport Atiq Baig and other city government officers attended the meeting. The project is being started on the directives of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan.
According to sources, the centers will provide immediate help to citizens in case of any emergency. In the first phase of the project, the centres will be established under five flyovers while the remaining nine will be set up in two more phases.
The centres will be equipped with ambulances, fire tenders, municipal service machinery and vehicles. Rangers and police kiosks will also be established there and the city government office at the centres will run round the clock.
Earlier, the Karachi DCO constituted a committee of eight senior engineers to conduct a survey of the city and submit a report on the establishment of emergency centres beneath 38 flyovers.
